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For street bikes I'm a big fan of Motolights mounted on the calipers. Another option I've tried and have been very impressed with are the little Clearwater Glendas. Dial them down for conspicuity, and on high beam they throw out enough light to help see close objects at night.

To help prevent those "left turn in front" a pair mounted lower than headlight to get a triangle effect would be first choice. Of what's currently available, I think the Denali D2 is the best combo of visibility and price. They can be always on with the more narrow beam lens properly aimed and don't draw too much juice. They add useful light to supplement bike headlight, also. Motolights have good housings but the bulbs are ordinary indoor types that depend on the housing for weather protection,etc- its not really a full fledged automotive design but a compromise- though the housings are very well made tha's most of what you get for the money.

Skene Photon Blasters could also be added to the front in addition to the lights- that combo is on my RT.

At the rear, a flashing brake light might help cut the chance of being tail ended by one of the phone yakkers. Bigger is always betters so an adapted Whelen truck light is best but Skene P3 would be a good alternate choice.

On the recommendation of my BMW shop, I checked out the Rigid Industries Dually D2 LED lights. Anything more than 4 LEDs per housing is exteme overkill. I ordered them through the 4wheel parts web site and saved almost $80 on lights that were quite a bit less expensive than PIAAs. Rigid makes lights for our military and they are extremely well built. Their customer service was outstanding as well. they mounted up very well on the light mount sold by Bestrest for my F800GS.

I use LED's from ADVMonster. Mounted on the forks and wired through their dimmer. At about 30% power they add conspicuity and go to full brightness when the high beam is switched on. The light in the sidecar is on full power but behind a smoked plexi cover, the fork lights are dimmed.

I use LED's from ADVMonster. Mounted on the forks and wired through their dimmer. At about 30% power they add conspicuity and go to full brightness when the high beam is switched on. The light in the sidecar is on full power but behind a smoked plexi cover, the fork lights are dimmed.